Saturday, March 6, 2010

Ghanaian Highlife mix

I like to turn my singles, downloads and the occasional album track into compilation cd's. (yes, i know, that is getting old-fashioned). Even though this is a completely random process, after a while the songs become connected and their combination starts to fit together. This is one of my favorites at the moment, so i thought you might appreciate it also.

Dear Akwaboa, thank you for this and for all the sweet tunes you already posted in the past. I'm faithfully wishing for more great ghanaian highlife to be "spreaded" blogwise, I'm at a point where this music is like vitamin to me, so inspirational... I'm sometimes wondering if the quality of my work depends on the quality of the music I listen to. However, keep on posting the tunes please and perhaps I should message you about exchanging great music on a fair basis.

Greetings Akwaboa - thanks for your comment on electricjive - we are always willing to talk about exchanging mp3s - if there is anything you would like in particular amongst the covers shown on the recent electricjive post, just give me a shout - Chris - recordforthe@gmail.com

Dear Anonymous (good nickname by the way),Glad you bring this matter to our attention.Of course i feel bad for the artists who live in poverty. But actually, i can't help that. I welcome and buy every re-release just to support them, and have used my blog to advertise them. Of course i would never post anything that is commercially available, just for this reason. And by posting just tracks, i don't crowd out re-releases.If anything, posting this music keeps their legacy alive and promotes re-issues.By the way, i've just given a couple of copies 'back' to such an artists for re-release....And to every artist his own audience. But don't deny me my musical preferences and to spread a bit of it around. And of course all the credit for this music goes to the artists, not to me.

Putting together a playlist is a creative act, of a different nature than writing a song, but still a creative act. Seeing compatibility in different pieces of art and reuniting them together requires knowledge, sensibility, and taste.